What We're Building:
The company's mission is to accelerate biology research by building fully autonomous biology labs.
Their robotic system relieves scientists from repetitive wet lab tasks so they can focus on making groundbreaking scientific discoveries. By combining recent advances in robotics with state-of-the-art computer vision, the company is developing technology that can perform protocols to the highest quality standards and be quickly deployed to new tasks.
The Team:
- They are a team of passionate, mission-driven engineers from companies like Tesla, Amazon, SpaceX, and Neuralink. They are collaborative and love moving fast, both with our product and on team trips skiing or go-karting!
- As a team, they love nerding out about engineering and robotics — plus other topics like race cars or cooking. They like learning new things and then sharing our new knowledge with each other.
- The team is opinionated and straightforward. They don’t mind intense discussions about design tradeoffs. If they have arguments or miscommunication, they resolve conflicts quickly and empathetically.
- Work with partner scientists at customer labs to quickly bring them solutions that meet their needs and get projects over the finish line
- Travel to the customer sites 30% of the time for hands on support and troubleshooting
- Clearly communicate project progress with the team and quickly request assistance when necessary
- Develop robotic solutions to manipulate and control biology tools designed for humans
- Integrate, test, and debug software solutions in simulation and on physical robots
- Besides your focus on robustness and performance, you’ll be expected to identify opportunities for simplification, and to design for scalability
- This position is in-person, you must be able to come on-site to our San Francisco office. We do not offer hybrid roles. We do offer relocation benefits for applicants who need to relocate.
- A level head and a passion for customer success
- Experience writing code for robotics systems
- Strong mechanical intuition and hardware debugging and assembly skills
- Experience with mechanical engineering tools and best practices in production
- A willingness to split your time between hardware and software work
- A hacker’s mindset - getting quickly to a good-enough solution
- Experience with Python and a desire to improve your software skills
- Experience or familiarity with robot arm manipulators
- A willingness to wear many hats / a flexible attitude towards responsibilities and scope
- BS/MS in Mechanical Engineering, Robotics, Mechatronics, Electrical Engineering, Aeronautical Engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent experience
- Experience with software engineering tools and best practices in production
- Experience with robotics in a laboratory or manufacturing environment
- Experience with robotic simulation systems such as MuJoCo
- Experience designing, building, and testing hardware
- Understanding of software communication protocols (ZMQ, Redis, gRPC, etc…)
- Contribution to software for a hardware product that shipped
- Relevant research/work experience in one or more
of the following areas: machine learning, computer vision, motion planning and trajectory optimization, kinematics and dynamics, control, and state estimation/SLAM
- 401k
- Medical insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Relocation benefits
- Unlimited PTO
- Weekday dinners
DeWinter Group and Maris Consulting is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. We post pay scales which are based on our client pay ranges. DeWinter, Maris, and our clients have the right to modify the requirements of the role which can impact the pay ranges posted.
